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No. 445,315. Patented Jan. 27,1891.

zwwww gyms STATES IIUGO GROSSENBAOII, OF BROOKLYN, AND XVILHELMPANHORST, OF NE YORK, N. Y.

CARREER OR RACER FOR BRAiDlNG-"VIACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,315, dated January27, 1891.

Application filed April 29, 1890. Serial No. 349,912. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

lie it known that we, Hnoo GROSSENBAOH and WILI-InLn PANHORST, theformer of Brooklyn, Kings county, in the State of New York, and thelatter of New York city, in the same State, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Carriers or Racers for Braidlug-Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

IO The object of our invention is to reduce and render uniform thetension of the yarn as it is taken off the bobbin to be conducted intothe braid. The resistance offered to the unwinding of the yarn from thatpoint which is opposite the guideeye is the minimum,while when the yarnis drawn through the eye from other parts of the spool the resistancewill be greater, this increase being largely due to the friction ofthestrand in unwinding against the body of the yarn upon the spool. Theinequality in the resistance is less as the distance of the guide-eyefrom the point of unwinding is increased. We have devised simple meanswhich tend to equalize the resistance, increasing it when the yarn isdrawn from the point of the spool nearest the guide-eye and tending todecrease it when it is drawn from more distant points. \Ve attain boththese ends by means of a straight smooth round bar or 3 wire parallel tothe guide-bar, but considerably to one side thereof and out ofcontactwith the spool. The yarn is deflected to pass this bar in beingled from the spool to the usual eye in the guide. At the point of thespool opposite the eye the yarn runs horizontally ever the deflectoubar,while as it unwinds from more distant points it assumes an obliqueposition; but the angle of obliquity is less than heretofore by reasonof the increased length of the traverse of the yarn in passing from thespool. The reduction in the angle makes the pull of the yarn more directto induce the proper delivering motion of the spool.

Our invention maybe used with all the ordinary provisions forstop-motions and the like.

The accompanying; drawings form a part of this specification andrepresent What we consider the best means of carrying out the invention.Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the linex :r in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both thefigures where they appear.

\Ve have represented the invention as applied to a carrier having anordinary form of stop-motion, with a hollow spindle and a weight insidein addition to the ordinary weight running on the guide, and will tiescribe it as thus used; but it will be understood that these points maybe varied.

A is the body of the carrier, A the spindle, and A the collar on whichthe spool rests. 6 5 A is the guide, having an ordinary smooth eye a,through which the yarn is conducted.

13 is a spool, and C the yarn delivered therefrom through the eye.

On the collarA is a sufficiently stout hori- 7o zontal arm A reaehin gout beyond the flange of the spool. On this arm we rigidly mount astraight rod of iron or steel A, ext-ending upward to a sut'iicientdistance to serve as a deflector for the yarn in being delivered fromall parts of the longest spools. The yarn O is led from the spool tothis rod, and, performing abouta quarter-circuit around this latter,extends thence to the eye, after passing which it maybe caused tooperate the st0p-motions, and is led away to be wrought into the braidin any ordinary or suitable manner.

The exigencies of the work require that the carrier shall possess butmoderate lateral dimensions. The guide A stands, necessarily, almost incontact with the rims of the spool. \Vhether the spool is full or empty,the yarn has but a little distance to traverse on leaving its coil onthe spool and passing out through the eye. Our deflector A compels gothe yarn to traverse farther than usual. It increases the availablespace between the surface of the yarn on the spool and the eye. By sodoing it reduces the angle at which the yarn leaves its place on thespool. The increase in the directness of the pull of the yarn on therotation of the spool in the extreme portions results in reducing thetension when the yarn is being taken from those parts of the spool.\Vhen the yarn is being taken too from the coils at that portion of thespool level with the eye, our invention increases the resistance. Thisincrease is due to the fact that the yarn, instead of being pulleddirectly from the periphery of the spool into the eye, and thus inducingat the eye only the tension which is required to pull the spool around,is by our invention required to turn about a right angle in passingpartially around the deflector The considerable friction induced by thistraverse of the yarn partially around the deflector makes acorresponding increased tension on the yarn under this condition. Theeye a may come opposite the mid-height of the spool or it may, as usual,be considerably higher. Our deflector will serve with a wide range oflengths of spool and with the eye placed considerably lower or evenhigher than shown. The rod A is of a length sutficient for the longestspool. To adapt the machine for a longer or shorter spool, thepinching-screw a is slackened and the collar A is raised or lowered.

We deem it important that the rod A be carried by the collar A insteadof by the guide-arm, and that it be arranged between the guide-eye a andthe guiding-eye b, as shown, out of diametric line with the guideeye aand the center of the spool, as seen in Fig. 2, so that the yarn istaken from the spool parallel with the said guide a and then turned atright angles thereto over the rod A as seen best in Fig. 2, so as toincrease the friction and consequently the tension on the yarn. Wherethe deflector-rod is carried by the guide-arm, it is difficult toarrange it in the position deemed most desirable to obtain the desiredresults.

\Ve claim as our invention A carrier for braiding-machines, having aspool-supporting spindle, a standard provided with a yarn-guiding eye,and with a deflectorrod A placed parallel with the spindle and carriedby the collar on which the spool rests independent of the guide,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands, at the city of NewYork, this 25th dayof April, 1890, in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

HUGO GROSSENBAOH. WILHELM PANHORS'I.

Vitnesses: I

AUGUST RWAGENER, Louis BIEL.

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